Hame-fastener



UNITED STATESv PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KRGER, OF BUFFALO, NEV YORK.

' HAM E-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.413,805, dated October 29, 1889.

Application filed July 1, 1889. Serial No. 316,235. (No model.)

To all whom. t may concern.:

Be it known that I, JOHN KREGER, of Buf- Y falo, in thecounty of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsy in Haine-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection serve to illustrate my invention more fully,

Figure l is a side elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation in line o: x of Fig. 2. Fig. I is an end elevation. Fig. 5 is atransverse sectional elevation in line /J y of Fig. 2.

Like parts are represented by corresponding letters of reference in all the figures.

The object of this invention is the production of a simple, cheap, and efficient fastening for hames-one that can be readily attached to the hame and which can be easily unfastened when removing the haine from the collar. device as follows:

A is the head, having at one end a hook F,

4to hook over the loop of the hame, and at the vother end provided with an upwardly-projecting llug O, on the top of which is placed an upward projection D. Within and running vertically through said projection and lug O is located a passage J having enlargements J j. Nearthe lower end of said'lug is placed a horizontal passage K for the reception of a plate B. In the center of the head A, between the lug O and hook F, is an oblong excision for purposes of ornamentation, leaving two side bars to connect the lug and the 4hook together. On the inner sides of these bars are located two grooves or ways e e for the plate B to rest upon.

B-is an eye-plate, having a hook E at one To attain this result, I construct myeud, and being preferably cut away to a point at the other, to facilitate its entering into the passage K in the lug, the said plate being provided with a series of holes or eyes II H H h h for the reception of a pin G.

G is a pin, having at its upper extremity a head or button CZ to facilitate its being readily depressed and raised, and being provided with an enlargement, thus forming a shoulder I for a spring k to bear upon, said pin being adapted to fit and slide vertically in the passage J and when fully raised rests with its shoulder I against the shoulder in the passage formed by the enlargement j, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, and when fully depressed the head d rest-s upon the upper face of the projection D.

k is a sp1-ing adapted to fit into the passage J with its upper extremity bearing against the shoulder in the passage formed by the enlargement J, and with its lower end against the shoulder I of the pin G.

The operation vof the device is as follows: The hooks F E are placed upon the loops of the haines and the ends of the hooks hammered until they completely encircle the loop, thus rigidly fastening the device to the hames. Then the haines are put on the harness-col lar and in position to be fastened, the pin G is raised and the eyefplate B is pushed into the passage K in the lug until the haines iit the collar tightly, when the pin is released,

and, by reason of the spring pressing upon it, the same is pushed through the hole in the eye-plate and into the hole in the bottom of the lug, thus securely looking the. hames. IVhen it is desired to remove the haines from the collar, the pin is raised and the eye-plate withdrawn from the passage K.

In such metallic fasteners with which Iam acquainted there is a great liability of the same to unloosen when the horse is going downhill and the 'wagon suddenly striking an obstruction, causing the fastener to part by reason of the sudden strain brought upon the hames. In my device such objections are overcome, there being no strain whatever that would tend ,to force the pin G upward.

It will nowbe observed that this device can be attached to all kinds of haines without change or modification. It will be further observed IOO that the device as liereinbefore described may be produced in either malleable iron, castiron, or brass, or it may be forged in wroughtiron, and when nickel, silver, or gold plated or japanned it Will make a very neat and attractive appendage for harnesses, and which can be produced at a very 10W figure.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to seeure to me by Letters Patent of the United States- In haine-fasteners, the combination, With the eye-plate B, having a hook E and a series of holes Il H Il z 7l', of the head A,having the hook F and lug C and upward projection D, provided with a central passage J having enlargements J j, Withinwhieh is 1oeated a shoulder-pin G, provided With a head d and a spring 7c, the horizontal passage K, and ways e e', as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN KREGER. lVitnesses:

MICHAEL J. STARK, WM. O. STARK. 

